Deciphering a Journal: Luka

Sorkočević's Experience of Vienna

(1781-82)

KATJA RADOŠ-PERKOVIĆ

DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB

LUKA SORKOČEVIĆ – LUCA SORGO (1734-1789)

• COMPOSER AND DIPLOMAT

• FROM DUBROVNIK

• STUDIED MUSIC IN ROME

• ORCHESTRAL, AND VOCAL MUSIC

• AMATEUR MUSICIAN

• CULTURAL MANAGER AND

POLITICIAN

THE VIENNA JOURNAL (1781-1782)

• 4 MONTHS IN VIENNA

• DIPLOMATIC MISSION

• HANDWRITTEN, INEDITED

• IN ITALIAN

A WORK IN PROGRESS…

• 137 SLIDES IN JPG. FORMAT

• EVERY SLIDE CONTAINS 2 JOURNAL PAGES

• 80 CONVERTED, 57 TO GO

• WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION

LANGUAGE

• ITALIAN, RELATIVELY GOOD IN SEMANTICS, RATHER CLUMSY IN GRAMMAR AND

SYNTAX

• POOR ORTHOGRAPHY (EX. POSTTO, G(I)UOCO, NO ACCENTS…)

• COMPLETELY RANDOM PUNCTUATION

• RANDOM USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS

• ALL ANTHROPONYMS AND TOPONYMS PHONETICALLY ADAPTED TO ITALIAN

(EX. SCEMBRUN – SCHÖNBRUN, ASTERASI – ESTERHÁZY)

• SO FAR 3 REFERENCES TO CROATIAN

ANTHROPONYMS

• A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF REFERENCES

• THE MAJORITY TRACEABLE THROUGH THE INTERNET

• A MINORITY TO BE INVESTIGATED AND IDENTIFIED IF POSSIBLE

• TRANSPHONEMIZATION INTO ITALIAN

• THE NAMES MOST FREQUENTLY MENTIONED: PRINCE KAUNITZ, COUNT

ROSEMBERGH, THE WÜRTTEMBERG FAMILY MEMBERS

JPG. 6

NOBILITY HOUSES AND NAMES (EXAMPLES)

• MONSIG. ERBERSTEIN

• C.TE VILCECK

• GIUSEPPE DI SCHWARZENBERG

• NORA (HIS WIFE)

• PRINCIPE ANSCBERG

• C.TE DIETERSTEIN

• CARDINAL ERZAN

• KARL JOHANN VON HERBERSTEIN

• JOSEPH MARIA WILCZEK?

• JOSEPH I OR JOHANN I NEPOMUK?

• MARIE ELEONORE ZU ÖTTINGEN WALLERSTEIN?

• VON RANZAU-ASCHBERG?

• VON DIETRICHSTEIN

• FRANCISKUS VON PAULA HERZAN VON HARRAS

THE CROATIAN REFERENCE – JPG. 56

JPG. 56 – THE CROATIAN REFERENCE

LA SCATTOLA DATA ALL’AMB.RE

DI VENEZIA, ESAMINATE LE GIOIE

DA PERITI, DICESI CHE NON

PASSA IL VALORE DI 300 Z.NI.

CALCOLANDO IN PROPORZIONE,

IO ALLA MIA PARTENZA

M’ATTENDO A UN BEL NIENTE

OLLI MEDAGLIZU SVETOGAVENANZIA .

THE BOX GIVEN TO THE VENETIAN

AMBASSADOR, AFTER HAVING HAD

THE JEWELS EXAMINED BY EXPERTS, IS

SAID TO BE WORTH NOT MORE THAN

300 GOLDEN COINS. COUNTING

PROPORTIONALLY, I EXPECT TO GET

AT MY DEPARTURE NOTHING AT ALL

BUT THE MEDAL OF SAINT

VENANTIUS.

TWO MORE CROATIAN REFERENCES

• DERIVED FROM GERMAN:

• JPG. 10 – LA PIÙ AMABILE TRA LE FRAILE

• JPG. 63 – IL BALLO DELLE FRAILE

• PROPERLY CROATIAN:

• JPG. 80 – RIBBA, SUBI (RIBA, ZUBI)

• ELIGIBLE BRIDE, UNMARRIED GIRL

• DEBUTANT BALL

• FISH, TEETH

MUSICAL REFERENCES

• GLUCK – 5

• METASTASIO – 3

• MUSIC – 10

• MUSICIANS – 9

• INSTRUMENTS – 2

• WORKS – 6

• DANCE

• VISIT, STAGINGS, COMMENTS ON HIS REFORM

• VISIT, CHARACTER, MARIANNA MARTINEZ

• BERNASCONI, ADELSPIR, FISCERO, VARESE, RAB, OLIVIERI

• ORCHESTRA, ISTROMENTI DA FIATO, CEMBALO, VIOLINO

• IFIGENIA, ORFEO, ARMIDA, ALCESTE, TOM JONES, LA

SCHIAVA

• MENUET, QUADRILLE, CONTRADANZA, NATIONAL DANCES

THE DECIPHERING OF SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE

PROBLEMS

JPG. 20

FUTURE TASKS AND CHALLENGES

• COMPLETE THE TRANSCRIPTION

• EDIT THE ITALIAN TEXT

• TRANSLATE INTO CROATIAN

• COMPLETE THE APPARATUS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND

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